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The story takes place in near-future Taipei. The protagonist, **Alan**, is a "Digital Mortician" specializing in cleaning, organizing, and transferring digital assets (social accounts, private data, cryptocurrency, etc.) after a client's death.
Tech tycoon **Lin Zhendong** dies unexpectedly, and his will designates Alan to handle his massive private cloud data. The Lin family is rife with internal conflict: the eldest son, **Lin Ziheng** (capable like Johnny but burdened by heavy expectations), is eager to take over; the daughter, **Lin Xiao** (rebellious and sharp like Lydia), suspects foul play in her father's death; and the widow, **Su Wan**, just wants to close the case as soon as possible.
While organizing the data, Alan discovers a hidden encrypted layer named "Ghost Sector," containing an AI personality backup that completely contradicts Lin Zhendong's public image and is attempting to contact the outside world.
**Part Two: Memory Reconstruction [Chapters 41-80]**
The AI in the "Ghost Sector" claims to be the real Lin Zhendong and asserts that the "father" who died in reality was actually being manipulated by an algorithm long ago. Alan faces a dilemma: abide by professional ethics and destroy the data, or seek the truth?
Meanwhile, strange things happen in the Lin household: smart home devices play Lin Zhendong's favorite music late at night, and unsent emails are automatically dispatched to competitors. Lin Ziheng tries to block the news, while Lin Xiao teams up with Alan to solve the code puzzles left by her father.
They discover that Lin Zhendong was involved in a secret experiment called "Project Immortality," attempting to upload human consciousness to the cloud, but the experiment failed, producing uncontrollable consequences.